[OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list at python.org

[Ben Finney]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

> In particular, because there is no indication that it is an exact
> duplicate of what I will also find on the list itself. Please use
> reply instead of reply-all.

Better: If you don't want to reply to the author directly, and you don't
want to reply to everyone, don't use “reply to author” or “reply to
all”.

When replying to the list, use the “reply to list” command of your mail
client. This will, in a standards-compliant mail client, reply to the
posting address for the list (declared in the message header via the RFC
2369 ‘List-Post’ field, added automatically by every common mailing list
system), without a copy to the sender.

Thunderbird has a long-outstanding bug report requesting this feature
<URL:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45715>, which is
apparently fixed in recent versions. Before that bug was fixed, an
add-on <URL:http://www.juergen-ernst.de/addons/replytolist.html> was
developed to add it in a different way.

If you're using a different mail client, look for the “reply to list”
command, and if it's not there (or doesn't work correctly), report it to
the vendor as a bug and/or switch to one of the many alternative MUAs
that get it right.

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Ben Finney